NOTE: I will try and come back to this post to add links to the individual sites as I have time.
If you are looking for shopping deals and like most of the rest of the American public felt that the deals offered on Black Friday were weak, look forward to Cyber Monday.
Cyber Monday is the Monday after Thanksgiving and it is typically when online retailers mark the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. They do so by offering some of the best deals of the year, along with free shipping and other incentives.
Here are some of the sales I have heard of so far:
- Toy R Us Inc. is having a big one-day sale
- eToys.com, not be outdone, is having a two-day sale
- Wal-Mart will begin five days of online-only sales
- Blue Nile will offer 20 percent off if you use PayPal
- Sears has a variety of items going on discount, including lots of Craftsman Tools
- Kmart is offering up to 60% on over 100 items Monday only
- Staples is having a one-day electronics sale
- Shoes.com is giving 20% off all orders on Monday
- Sports Authority is having an online after hours sale Monday
- Free shipping will enhance the deals at Target, Circuit City, Sears, Crate & Barrel, Discovery Store, Baby Center, Bealls, HSN, Jos A Bank, L.L. Bean, and Overstock.com.
I’ll add good deals as I find them. I do plan on being online tomorrow to do some shopping – after my little morning surgery, that is. 
Posted in Shopping November 25th, 2007 by Angie | 1 comment
The media certainly seems to be taking delight in the news that Linda Hogan, wife of wrestler Hulk Hogan, recently filed for divorce. Look at the headlines on just about any of the major news agencies online and you will see all the details.
Due to open public records, it sounds like Terry Bollea (Hulk’s legal name) found out about his divorce filing about the same way I found out about mine. A reporter from the St. Petersburg Times (our alarmingly left-leaning local newspaper) broke the news to him. I found out about mine when an attorney called me offering her services. I had been unaware before that my ex husband had actually filed. Vultures.
Poor guy. I know what it is like to have a stranger inform you about your own impending divorce before your own spouse has the nerve to tell you. Unfortunately, in Hogan’s case you have to add the element of the press. The whole world knew that Linda filed before he had a chance to speak to her himself.
He thanked the reporter for the “great information” then called back five minutes later to say, “I’m kind of shocked. You caught me off-guard. My wife has been in California for about three weeks. … Holy smokes. Wow, you just knocked the bottom out of me. … I just pulled over to the side of the road for five minutes to find out what was going on here.”
I have no respect for the reporter who made the call. I have degrees in Journalism and I have worked in newspaper, radio and television news. You get paid less than a typical retail sales clerk and the hours suck. Unfortunately, what that does is create a drive in most journalists to get scoops on big stories so they can eventually move into jobs in larger markets, and subsequently earn a little more money. The internal ethics of your garden variety journalist are sick, twisted, and darker than an open grave. Believe me. There is a reason beyond money that I quit the industry.
I’m making the assumption that the journalist in question is Jacob H. Fries, since his byline is first on the story. Do you feel like a big-time reporter now, Mr. Fries? What does it feel like to get your scoop on the back of someone else’s private emotional anguish?
Posted in Entertainment, Florida November 25th, 2007 by Angie | No comments
